Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York subway strike and the ensuing controversy about the microphones the Transit Authority had placed in the offices of the Motormen's Benevolent Association has always been an edifying spectacle. The latest development is a statement which ought to endure as a classic in the field of civil liberties...
...Joseph O'Grady, a member of the Transit Authority, said, "I haven't given a thought to whether it is immoral or not." Mr. O'Grady made the statement after Assemblyman Monteleone called "bugging" legal but immoral. Mayor Wagner said that he was none too pleased, either...
...legality of the Authority's action is an open question. It claims the microphones were installed by its police in the interests of tranquillity on the subways. The Transit Authority claimed that it wouldn't have dreamed of using the material thus gathered in strike-breaking or anti-union pursuits. But legal or illegal, the behavior of the Transit Authority in this matter can only be condemned. Assemblyman Savarese, who started the investigation, probably hit the nail on the head when he called it "loathsome," "shoddy," "disgraceful," and "a dirty business...
...hired for passenger flight duty (the first: Pilot Perry H. Young, 38, of New York Airways helicopter service). Ruth Taylor, Boston-born, attended Elmira College, graduated as a registered nurse from Manhattan's Bellevue School of Nursing, worked as a nurse for the New York City Transit Authority before signing on with Mohawk...
...deep in the troubled heart of modern unionism, where skilled laborers and craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A. President Theodore Loos and three...